Petrov's Flu 2021

Overview

Petrovs Flu is a 2021 drama film written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, based on Alexey Salnikovs novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu. The film follows a day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia, set against the backdrop of a city in the throes of a flu epidemic. While suffering from the illness, the character Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality. The Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, and the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness where things turn out to be extraordinary beneath layers of the ordinary. The cast includes Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, and Yuriy Borisov. The film combines elements of drama, science fiction, and comedy, with a runtime of two hours and twenty-five minutes.